Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
The choice of secret word this week, "book", is especially appropriate, as it allows Groucho to pay a contestant $100 after she plugs his autobiography, "Groucho and Me". (@ 7:28)
NOTE: The first minute or so is missing. This has the unfortunate effect of rendering the appearance of a gorilla in the opening completely inexplicable.
The program runs long, and the second couple return next week for the quiz.
COUPLE #1: Grace Garrett, hotel babysitter / Chuck Lewis, golf pro who tours with a "golf show," whatever that is (it's not really explained). We also meet Chuck's daughter, Linda, who is part of the act.
COUPLE #2: Margaret Rhode, Lufthansa airline hostess / Kent Shelby
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
The choice of secret word this week, "book", is especially appropriate, as it allows Groucho to pay a contestant $100 after she plugs his autobiography, "Groucho and Me". (@ 7:28)
NOTE: The first minute or so is missing. This has the unfortunate effect of rendering the appearance of a gorilla in the opening completely inexplicable.
The program runs long, and the second couple return next week for the quiz.
COUPLE #1: Grace Garrett, hotel babysitter / Chuck Lewis, golf pro who tours with a "golf show," whatever that is (it's not really explained). We also meet Chuck's daughter, Linda, who is part of the act.
COUPLE #2: Margaret Rhode, Lufthansa airline hostess / Kent Shelby
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
![Burns and Allen - Classic Scenes #2 - George & Gracies last musical number together [clip]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sKQoN06HvZE/mqdefault.jpg "Burns and Allen - Classic Scenes #2 - George & Gracies last musical number together [clip]
Heres a great scene from season 6, episode 6 of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (Oct 3, 1955). In this episode, George is trying to find backers for a musical version of his book, I Love Her, Thats Why. Everything looks all set till the investors find out George wants to play the lead role.
Here, George and Gracie sing a song based on the books title, in a delightful duet with some charming dancing thrown in. This is a historically significant scene, as its the last musical number George and Gracie ever performed on film together.")
